like crossing a river

[Megan]

excuse me??

Just what are you implying, calling me a barbarian??
That's some rude ->-bleeped-<-. You don't even know me and you pop off with this BS??

WTF??

I think she was saying that you have a wild beauty about yourself because you can burn down bridges while she cannot because she was brainwashed by society to conform into an imbecile.  So it's a metaphorical illusion about the basis of the American dream, and modern society.